The Master Key: The Art of Mental DisciplineHaving financial difficulties? Afflicted with chronic stage fright? Suffering from a bad memory? Perhaps your difficulties are due to a lack of mental discipline. If so, this is the book you've been seeking. Filled with practical advice and exercises that will improve your mind control, L.W. de Laurence's The Master Key, first published in 1914, unlocks the door to the mysteries they tried to keep secret from you for centuries. Learn how concentrated thought will "unfold (your) individuality to the full."American writer and publisher LAURON WILLIAM DE LAURENCE (1868-1936) was a prolific author of works on spiritualism and the occult. His other works include The Great Book of Hindu Magic (1904), The Mystic Test Book of the Hindu Occult Chambers (1909) and Clairvoyance, Thought Transference, Auto Trance, and Spiritualism (1916). |
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... wish to advance . It lies within the earnest student to create a world of thought wherein he may weather with calm fortitude the storms of mental life , for disappointment and sorrow pass no one by , and suffering is the loom in which ...
... wish to advance . It lies within the earnest student to create a world of thought wherein he may weather with calm fortitude the storms of mental life , for disappointment and sorrow pass no one by , and suffering is the loom in which ...
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... wish to entertain . Instantly it must be replaced by a concept , good and encouraging . Should the mind be filled with fear and dread - usually unfounded - of some impending danger , the picture should be reversed instantly , the mind ...
... wish to entertain . Instantly it must be replaced by a concept , good and encouraging . Should the mind be filled with fear and dread - usually unfounded - of some impending danger , the picture should be reversed instantly , the mind ...
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... wish to entertain . Reason told us these thoughts were fruitless and depressing , and we knew full well they were demoralizing both to character and well - being . Notwithstanding this fact , we allowed these thoughts to harass our ...
... wish to entertain . Reason told us these thoughts were fruitless and depressing , and we knew full well they were demoralizing both to character and well - being . Notwithstanding this fact , we allowed these thoughts to harass our ...
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... wish to entertain and yet are powerless to banish com- pletely . Each student can prove to his own satisfaction that ... wishes to achieve . By your manner of thinking you can entirely change your feelings in regard to others , and even ...
... wish to entertain and yet are powerless to banish com- pletely . Each student can prove to his own satisfaction that ... wishes to achieve . By your manner of thinking you can entirely change your feelings in regard to others , and even ...
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... wish to avoid study , and this is not the right attitude of those who seek to acquire the faculty of concentration . In conversation , too , a thought should be kept until all concerning it of an interesting nature has been extracted ...
... wish to avoid study , and this is not the right attitude of those who seek to acquire the faculty of concentration . In conversation , too , a thought should be kept until all concerning it of an interesting nature has been extracted ...
Contents
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LESSON FIVE | 37 |
LESSON | 43 |
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT | 51 |
LESSON NINE | 60 |
LESSON | 68 |
LESSON SIXTEEN | 132 |
LESSON SEVENTEEN | 146 |
HABIT FIXED HABITS GOOD HABITS BAD HABITS | 176 |
LESSON TWENTYTWO | 192 |
LESSON TWENTYTHREE | 210 |
THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING | 251 |
LESSON TWENTYSEVEN | 264 |
LESSON TWENTYEIGHT | 273 |
xii | 74 |
SCIENTIFIC COncentration ATTENTION and Mental | 77 |
LESSON TWELVE | 90 |
CULTIVATION OF MEMORY | 96 |
SCIENTIFIC CONCENTRATION ATTENTION AND MENTAL | 101 |
DISCIPLINE | 111 |
PART THREE | 124 |
RATIONAL AND MORAL EDUCATION ETHICALLY | 306 |
INDIVIDUAL MENTAL EFFICIENCY | 326 |
LESSON THIRTYONE | 335 |
CONCENTRATION APPLIED TO FEAR AND DISEASE | 347 |
CONCENTRATION APPLIED DURING THE PERIOD | 353 |
CHAPTER XXXVII | 369 |
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